No, she was in one episode, "Ashes to Ashes." She was retconned as someone who'd been part of the crew years earlier, but she'd never been seen before. Maybe you're thinking of Jetal from "Latent Image," who died under similar circumstances (Memory Alpha even speculates that Ballard was originally meant to be Jetal).

No, she was in one episode, "Ashes to Ashes." She was retconned as someone who'd been part of the crew years earlier, but she'd never been seen before. Maybe you're thinking of Jetal from "Latent Image," who died under similar circumstances (Memory Alpha even speculates that Ballard was originally meant to be Jetal).

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Hmm, you may be correct.

I definitely remember Ballard. You could be right that the "retconning" played tricks in my mind to make me think she actually was in a previous episode.

Or maybe because of the acrimony over you know who he got no good natured ribbing but whenever he was nearby and someone had reason to use the word "people" they said it with deep sarcasm and rolled their eyes in his direction.

Having witnessed Angel's trout pout faux Seven on Stargate, that was a lucky break.

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On the other hand, Hudson Leick is not only a staggering beauty but a staggeringly gifted actress, even more so than Jeri Ryan. But of course if she'd gotten cast as Seven, then Callisto on Xena would've had to disappear or be killed off, and that would've been a shame.

Small world: Vanessa Angel was actually almost cast as Xena in her first appearance on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, but got sick and had to decline the role, leading the producers to fall back on Lucy Lawless even though she'd just played a different guest character a few episodes earlier.